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Histoire Naturelle des Lepidoptères ExotiquesBuild and Access the Collection – $2,500 Pierre Hippolyte Lucas (1815?-1899) began his career in science at 13 as an apprentice preparator in the zoological laboratory of the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He became a respected expert on several orders of invertebrates and wrote up the specimens of several important...Read More |
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Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des ÉpimaquesBuild and Access the Collection – $5,000 Ever since the surviving ship of Magellan's fleet returned to Spain in 1522 with birds of paradise, all specimens known in Europe through the 18th century were prepared and preserved by native collectors with the bones and feet removed. As a result, Linnaeus' Systema Naturae (10th ed., 1758) gave...Read More |
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Histoire Naturelle et Médicale des Casses : et Particulièrement de la Casse et des Sénés Employés en MédecineBuild and Access the Collection – $650 This is a thesis presented for a medical degree at the University of Montpelier by Louis Théodore Frédéric Colladon, a student of the renowned botanist Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle. As was common in European universities at the time, it was de Candolle who wrote the detailed descriptions and...Read More |
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Historical Color GuideBuild and Access the Collection – $350 There is little to be found about Elizabeth Burris-Meyer’s life, but it is safe to assume that she was a proud aesthete. As the “Dean of the School for Fashion Careers,” Burris-Meyer published two books on color. Her Historical Color Guide draws inspiration from various historical works of art...Read More |
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The History of the MaroonsBuild and Access the Collection – $1,000 Robert Charles Dallas (1754-1824), a British writer, was born in Jamaica and returned there after an education in England and Scotland. In the West Indies, runaway slaves who formed communities independent from white society (often with American Indians) were called “Maroons.” Those in...Read More |
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How to Mix DrinksBuild and Access the Collection – $3,000 Collecting and standardizing what had been until then a hodge-podge of oral traditions and regional customs, this was the first recipe book for mixed drinks published in the United States. Jeremiah Thomas (1830-1885) was a bartender who owned various saloons in New York City and worked...Read More |
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I Have a DreamBuild and Access the Collection – $250 Each page of this short, beautifully illustrated book is packed with information about Black Heritage Series postage stamps. From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to Jesse Owens, twenty-eight African American heroes are described in this book. Each chapter...Read More |
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Icones Piscium : Indicem SystematicumBuild and Access the Collection – $550 Frederik Christian Kielsen (1774-1850), a Danish naturalist and teacher, published his Icones in six separate parts: fishes, mammals, insects, invertebrates, birds, and amphibians. Each has a brief text providing a Linnaean systematic classification followed by (as the title...Read More |
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Initia Doctrinae PhysicaeBuild and Access the Collection – $1,675 Early edition (first 1549) of this influential physics text by the German humanist and reformer, Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). Melanchthon's importance as a religious reformer has tended to overshadow his achievements as a writer of science and medicine. His natural history course, which he held...Read More |
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International Histological Classification VBuild and Access the Collection – $300 This fascicle has detailed, thorough descriptions and explanatory notes of the various nervous system tumors, cross-referenced to high-quality photomicrographs of each (some slides in color, some black-and-white). It is highly referenced to related publications. This is one of a valuable, and...Read More |
